Tag: Nonviolence

Free Download Maurice Macartney, "Combinations: Denominations, Democracy and the Politics of Nonviolence "
English | ISBN: 1666916218 | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
Friend, enemy; loyalist, traitor: politics today seems caught in the grip of a binary reduction machine. Bidding us either with or against our neighbors as though we were already combined in, and owed allegiance to, mutually external, nameable collective entities – ‘communities’, ‘nations’, ‘races’ – denominations in general.

Free Download Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, "Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working toward a Better World "
English | ISBN: 9004445986 | 2021 | 164 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Drawing on the philosophy of nonviolence, the American pragmatist tradition, and recent empirical research, Pragmatic Nonviolence demonstrates that, rather than being merely theoretical, nonviolence is a truly practical approach toward personal and community well-being.

Free Download The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism By Paul R. Fleischman
2002 | 62 Pages | ISBN: 1928706223 | PDF | 1 MB
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, this thought-provoking essay explores the Buddha’s teaching to find one prescription: not war, not pacifism but nonviolence.

Free Download The Power of Nonviolence By Richard Bartlett Gregg
2018 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1107156009 | PDF | 2 MB
This definitive edition of the 1959 classic text includes a major new introduction by a leading political theorist, James Tully.

Free Download Andrew Fiala, "The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence "
English | ISBN: 0367572273 | 2020 | 418 pages | EPUB | 986 KB
Interest in pacifism―an idea with a long history in philosophical thought and in several religious traditions―is growing. The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence is the first comprehensive reference designed to introduce newcomers and researchers to the many varieties of pacifism and nonviolence, to their history and philosophy, and to pacifism’s most serious critiques. The volume offers 32 brand new chapters from the world’s leading experts across a diverse range of fields, who together provide a broad discussion of pacifism and nonviolence in connection with virtue ethics, capital punishment, animal ethics, ecology, queer theory, and feminism, among other areas. This